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Broiled Veal Chops

Broiled veal chops seasoned with salt, pepper, nutmeg, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 13,015 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Broiled Veal Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the veal chops.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.

  3. Brush with butter.

Broil and serve

  1. Broil the chops until golden brown, basting as needed.

  2. Serve with maître d'hôtel, Colbert, tomato, or Madeira sauces.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Nutmeg + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Veal + nutmegtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,542 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Veal chops
Provide the main lean meat that browns and stays tender when cooked quickly under high heat.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the surface brown evenly while basting.

The step that matters

Broil until golden brown, basting as needed. Veal is lean and cooks quickly under intense heat. Basting with butter keeps the surface from drying out, while watching for golden color prevents overcooking and toughness.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, pepper, butter):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Nutmegthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, pepper, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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